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Old 18th December 2008, 09:27   #11
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99% of these so called security flaws
wont happen to most of us there more scare mongering then anything else
there is a new update to sort it on windows update i believe already
i have tried firefox and didnt like it
IE7 works just great for me
firefox isnt the be all to end all

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/1...s-applications

In a list, published by security firm Bit9, of 12 most vulnerable applications for the Windows platform, Firefox finished at the top of the list.

1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat
3. EMC VMware Player,Workstation and other products
4. Sun Java JDK and JRE, Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
5. Apple QuickTime, Safari and iTunes
6. Symantec Norton products (all flavors 2006 to 2008)
7. Trend Micro OfficeScan
8. Citrix Products
9. Aurigma Image Uploader, Lycos FileUploader
10. Skype
11. Yahoo Assistant
12. Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger
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Old 18th December 2008, 18:13   #12
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I'm a complete pc numpty, can any body tell me which is the 'fix' on the link below. Thanks
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/default.mspx
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Old 18th December 2008, 18:18   #13
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click on this

Download urgent security update for Internet Explorer
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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Old 18th December 2008, 18:25   #14
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many thanks, thought it was that one but wasn't sure. Says I'm allready up to date. I must be set to auto update, or Trace has allready done it.

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